For more than a century, dentistry has focused on repairing or replacing damaged teeth, not growing new ones. That assumption ...

Off the bat, why don’t we do this already? To better understand what we’re up against in this toothy quest, Dr. Ophir Klein—a professor of orofacial sciences and pediatrics at the University of ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A study out of Japan showed how targeting genes can regrow teeth in animals. Now, the team has turned to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (NewsNation) — Bad news for the tooth fairy: ...

Now, Japanese researchers are moving a promising, tooth-regrowing medicine into human trials. If the trial is successful, the researchers hope the drug will become available for all forms of ...

This is certainly something to smile about. A group of scientists in Japan may be on their way to making a major breakthrough in dental care. Specifically, when it comes to tooth regrowth. According ...

Humans naturally produce only two sets of teeth in their lifetime, so tooth loss due to injury or disease is fairly common. Lost teeth are replaced, not restored, with dentures, fillings, or implants.

Handout images from the Medical Research Institute Kitano Hospital show before (top) and after images of the regrowth of teeth in a ferret (centre) and mice (R and L ...

Japanese scientists are set to kick off the world’s first clinical trials of “tooth regrowth medicine” at the Kyoto University Hospital, The Mainichi reports. Researchers from the Japanese startup ...

Scientists have developed a new way to repair teeth that uses laser light to stimulate the body's stem cells into forming dentin, the hard, bone-like tissue that makes up most of a tooth, Reuters ...

While bones can regrow themselves when they break, teeth aren’t so lucky, and that leads to millions of people worldwide suffering from some form of edentulism, a.k.a. toothlessness. Now, Japanese ...